Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.
The Washington Post reported on the incident:
10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane
Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.
As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.
Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.
Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.
Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.
After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palin’s speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told they’d committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”
CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.
Classic
Until we fight back. Their predictability is their undoing.
Translation: She's not someone I or the women I know would have chosen, so none of you may be permitted to choose her.
Fascism in action.
“CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group.”
CODEPINK is a bunch of bitter cud chewing sows.
How did the pink-o even get in the door?
not arrested...if I did something like that - they would have my butt on a waterboard about now.
Thanks Kristinn. We were wondering who that was we saw being escorted out.
Ironic, strange, whatever you might wish to call the situation here, but we are in the sticks, rural area without any cable. We don’t do enough television to warrant Dish (I don’t watch it except for something like this convention myself, but my wife has some shows she likes), so we have the old antennae on top of the roof. The only television station of the local broadcasting we could get that aired the entire speech as it occured was PBS. KCET Channel 28.
None of the major alphabet networks, or locals’ broadcast the Republican Convention as they did the Democrat Convention. We flicked channels multiple times to confirm.
Other than the lineup of Lehrer’s guest commentator’s, they did a good job. The commentator’s did not surprise me with their attitudes.
Nothing scarier than a post menopausal, liberal, b*tch trying to get a point across...Palin stood up against more than this knat the past three days.
As for code pink you think they would like her, she has a son going to Iraq and a nephew on ship, probably in or around the Gulf.
You’ve gotta wonder how she got in.
I saw her getting dragged out.
Hope the Secret Service gave them more than wedgies.
CNN cameras showed the secret service guys dragging her out up the stairs. Knew it was a code pink wacko but nothing was said about her.
I just won a small bet from my wife. She wanted to know who was being dragged away.
I replied, “Probably so code Pink Hate America Traitor!”
They tried to attack a VP candidate.
Isn’t that something like a federal offense?
Why are they not in jail?
But that's just a little fantasy of mine.
I remember a video game that my friend had in college...in the credits of the game they taught you useful German phrases (it was a WWii game). One of those phrases -in addressing a German Shepherd - was: “Der Amerikaner hat Hundkuchen in seine Taschen.” The American has dog biscuits in his pockets. For some strange reason, your post and the Code Pink “lady” reminded me of that...lol
For some reason Pee Wee herman humming lala la la la comes to mind when I see that picture.
Obama has his gang of rich and poor mau-mauing activists.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.